Max Kaufman is a senior associate at Herbert Smith Freehills. He specialises in EU and UK competition law, with particular experience in EU and national merger control filings and antitrust investigations and advice (anti-competitive agreements and abuses of dominance). He also has significant experience advising on UK regulatory law and EU and UK sports law. Max has been involved in cases before the UK competition authorities and the European Commission and has particular experience of the energy, financial services, infrastructure, pharmaceutical, telecoms and sports sectors. He also has significant experience in UK regulatory law, particularly in the electricity and gas sector. In the sports sector, Max has provided extensive advice on EU and UK sports law and, particularly, its interaction with competition law and has assisted clients with the regulatory requirements and risks around the acquisition of UK sports clubs.
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On 17 November 2023, the CMA issued a Prioritisation Statement (the Statement) indicating that it would not prioritise investigations under Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 (the CA 98) of exchanges of competitively sensitive information (CSI) and/or agreements between medicine (...)
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“When the price of a drug suddenly goes up by several hundred percent, this is something the Commission may look at” Commissioner Vestager said when opening a formal investigation into Aspen’s alleged excessive pricing conduct in May 2017. On 10 February 2021, the EU Commission (Commission) (...)
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On 11 November 2020 the UK Government introduced the National Security and Investment Bill (NSI Bill) to Parliament, setting out significant legislative reforms which will overhaul the review of transactions and investments on national security grounds in the UK, against a backdrop of (...)
